Curating Beirut: A Conversation on the Politics of Representation

Dagher, Sandra; David, Catherine; Salti, Rasha; Tohme, Christine; Demos, T

doi:10.1080/00043249.2007.10791258

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“…By 2017, this number had doubled (Su, 2017). While there have been numerous attempts to reform the kafala system, for example, through the ratification of a standard unified contract, which has been under discussion with the Ministry of Labor (MoL) since 2009, none of these efforts have proven successful (Amnesty International, 2019; Dagher et al., 2020). This includes the most recent iteration of this contract, which was originally adopted by the MoL in 2020 and later suspended by Lebanon's State Shura Council (Amnesty International, 2020a).…”

Section: Migrant Domestic Workers In Lebanonmentioning

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“If we don't do it, who will?” Strategies of social reproduction at the margins

Nassif

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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Migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Lebanon suffer grave human rights abuses as highly exploited social reproduction laborers under the kafala, or visa sponsorship system. Amidst the current economic and political crises in Lebanon, compounded by the spread of COVID‐19, MDW find themselves in an even more precarious situation. As funding from international and local nongovernment organizations is unable to keep up with the increasing demands for support, MDW community leaders and activists have shifted their labor in order to support some of the most marginalized members of this community of workers. To do this, these workers strategically use their often‐minimal personal sources of social reproduction resources to create this network of support. In so doing, the grassroots work of these MDW become yet another “fix” to capital's continuing crises and equally challenge their construction as a class of workers whose social reproduction needs can be disregarded.

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Section: Migrant Domestic Workers In Lebanonmentioning

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“If we don't do it, who will?” Strategies of social reproduction at the margins

Nassif

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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Blue like the Mediterranean: the work of the monochrome in the Atlas Group Archive

Korola¹

2021

Journal of Visual Culture

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In the prologue to Walid Raad’s Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (2001), the speaker asks that his words appear against a grey background. Or, he continues after a pause, ‘use a blue background . . . blue just like the Mediterranean’. Beginning with this colourful riddle, this article investigates the work of the monochrome in the Atlas Group Archive. With this attention to the monochrome as a format, the author’s goal is to move away from the categories of documentary and fiction that dominate discussions of Raad and parafictional work more generally, towards the formal infrastructure through which such works command belief and emotion. This attention to the aesthetic form of the archive not only brings into focus the constituent role of design in the construction of knowledge, but it also reveals the transformation of the monochrome in its encounters with the archive, technical media, and the chromatics of affective capitalism.

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Curating Beirut: A Conversation on the Politics of Representation

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“If we don't do it, who will?” Strategies of social reproduction at the margins

“If we don't do it, who will?” Strategies of social reproduction at the margins

Blue like the Mediterranean: the work of the monochrome in the Atlas Group Archive

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